[e2e] What should e2e protocols know about lower layers?

[John Kristoff]

> It should be pretty obvious that suppressing congestion control
> based on a naïve test such as "same subnet mask" is BAD. OTOH,
> developers do this for a reason: they are generally frustrated
> that TCP does not take full advantage of the capacity of a high
> speed network, especially in the case of short connections. Make
> no mistake, the pressure is going to increase with applications
> such as ISCSI and gigabit networks. 

Perhaps developers should be encouraged to use another protocol in place
of TCP, one that is TCP-friendly, rather than disable such a core
function of TCP based on their own limited vision of the network?

John